Microsoft Project – Practical Applications

The course is intended for intermediate and advanced users of MS Project who have been introduced to the programme or are actively using it. To demonstrate teamwork will be used MS SharePoint Server.

Course attendees will learn not only to set projects in MS Project correctly but also how to effectively rework and correct ongoing projects by using Tasks Correction, how to set up calendars, task relation, administration of resources and suitable allocation of resources. During the course attendees will practice solutions to resource overload, monitor plan progress of projects, use resource funds and collaborate between projects. Further, They will learn to work with project data. The whole range of problematics will be practised with practical case studies.

Basic knowledge of Windows

Introduction

• Basic notions
• What’s new in MS Project

Creation and management of schedules

• Task definition, outline, WBS, formatting, …
• Task bindings, time constraints
• Role of calendars in schedules
• Automatic/manual tasks
• Schedules modification
• Free slack analysis
• Task tracing

Resource definition

• Understanding of tasks in projects
• Tasks types

Resource assignment

• Different assignment methods according to time and resource availability or work amount demant
• Resources work report
• Options of resource leveling

Cost analysis

• Fixed costs assigned to tasks
• Resources costs
• Budgetary costs
• Cost reports

Monitoring of running project

• Idea of baseline
• Entering of actual values
• Smooth task updates
• Progress monitoring – variances between baseline and actual plan
• Actual project state reports

Reporting

• Using predefined visual reports, their modifications, definitions of new ones
• Essential project information via email
• Well-arranged export to MS PowerPoint
• Suitable views and their customization
• Printed reports
• Export to MS Excel
• Analysis using MS Excel (pivot tables, conditional formatting)

Enviroment customization (tables, views, fields)

Team cooperation

• Resource pool – resource sharing (without MS Project Server)
• Super and sub projects
• Efficient communication using MS SharePoint

Troubleshooting

• Solving of known conflict situations
• Comparison of project versions

Previous courses

Microsoft Project 2016/2013 – Basic Course [MSPRO1a]

Next courses

Microsoft Project Online – multiple projects management [MSPRO2OL]

Microsoft Project Online – nasazení a správa [MSPRO3OL]